Funny Business: What corporate exec would be stupid enough to endorse Kerry?

National Review Online ^ | 08/06/2004 | Donald Luskin

[etradervic]

...And here’s a shocker. Peter Chernin, president and COO of News Corp. and chairman and CEO of Fox Group is on the list. That’s right — the same News Corp. run by the evil Australian reactionary Rupert Murdoch, and the same Fox whose cable news channel stole the 2000 Florida election from Al Gore (according to Michael Moore). Kerry’s press release even quotes Chernin at length. He sounds like a fire hose spouting pro-Kerry feel-good platitudes:

The Kerry-Edwards plan for America is exactly what is needed to jumpstart businesses and get America working again. It will lower healthcare costs and cut taxes on corporations and small businesses to strengthen our economy today and invest in education, science and innovation to help us stay competitive in the economy of tomorrow. Has Chernin lost his mind? Is he a pro-Bush mole in the Kerry campaign? Or is it time to re-evaluate the constant litany of lies from the left to the effect that Fox News is, as Paul Krugman recently put it, “a G.O.P. propaganda agency”?

Perhaps most remarkable of all, though, is the number of business executives on the list who are full-fledged, living, breathing Benedict Arnold CEOs. Forty executives on Kerry’s list work for companies that appear on Lou Dobbs’s “Exporting America” list — a hall of shame for companies that (according to Dobbs) are sending American jobs overseas.

And for all of Kerry’s talk about improving labor standards at home and abroad, some of the executives endorsing him are closely tied to sweat-shop operations. Kerry list-member Donna Karan has faced a class action suit by Manhattan garment workers alleging “workers toiled seven days a week, 11 hours each weekday and eight to 10 hours on the weekends … and did not earn the minimum wage,” according to the New York Daily News. The liberal magazine The Nation reported that Esprit, the garment firm of Kerry list-member Susie Tompkins Buell, used sweat-shops in San Francisco that were raided by the Department of Labor. ...

[etradervic]

Is Fox so defensive about attacks from the Left-Wing Old Media that it thinks that it is necessary to have a high profile endorsement of Kerry to prove that they are "Fair and Balanced?" What is Kerry going to do for America? Resuscitate Hillary's Government takeover of Health Care? Reenact the "Fall of Saigon" in Iraq? Raise our taxes?

[12 Gauge Mossberg]

Where the hell am I going to get the bulk of my news now? Can FR throw up a satellite and create an all-conservative network or something?

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[aynrandfreak]

News Corp has a habit of dealing with tyrants to keep their business moving forward (i.e.China), so it's not suprising. Technically though, the headline is wrong; it's the COO, not the CEO

[OldFriend]

I read that Ruppert Murdoch allowed the dem convention to use the Staples Center in LA without charge.

And let's not forget that despicable headline in the New York Post......

BUSH KNEW

Her horrible heinous took this paper with that headline to the floor of the US Senate.

[COEXERJ145]

Fox News seems to be moving hard left these last few weeks.

[eleni121]

"Can FR throw up a satellite and create an all-conservative network or something?"

An idea whose time has come! Excellent! I know many wonderful Freepers who could contribute and the writing around here is for the most part superb.

You should post this as a separate news item.

[Bruce Kurtz]

"The Kerry-Edwards plan for America is exactly what is needed to jumpstart businesses and get America working again. It will lower healthcare costs and cut taxes on corporations and small businesses to strengthen our economy today and invest in education, science and innovation to help us stay competitive in the economy of tomorrow."

Where does he come up with that Kerry plans to cut taxes on corporations and small business?

[CatoRenasci]

I don't think Fox realizes that the only reason they have been successful is that they have been perceived as not sharing the Mainstream Media's leftist bias.

The minute conservatives believe Fox has sold out to the left, as in Chernin's support of Kerry, they will lose their audience.

I suspect there is something of a struggle going on within Fox -- some executives want it to move left and others are resisting: that's why you saw Fox itself give such prominence to the fact that it was a Fox executive shilling for Kerry. The more conservative side within Fox wanted the viewers to know what was going on without getting themselves into trouble, so they just reported the guy was Fox.

We all need to make it clear to Hannity, O'Reilly, Hume and the others that were outathere if Fox tilts left.

[plangent]

It certainly punctures the MoveOn.org assertion that Fox is NOT fair and balanced. Seems that FOX can tolerate a lot of diversity in its employees...and still get out a fuller, balanced news report.

[Aetius]

Fox News' fawning treatment of Barack Obama was as orgasmic as the other networks.

And Chernin is probably a social liberal just like the heads of most Hollywood studios.

[COEXERJ145]

Don't forget after Lurch's speech, a lot of the pundents on CNN and MSNBC were very critical of it. Sure they dumped a lot of praise but the also spent a lot of time ripping Kerry for not delivering the needed "blow them out of the water" speech. Fox News on the other hand just sat around having orgasms over Kerry's speech.

[etradervic]

The title is correct. Chernin is the CEO of Fox Group and the COO of Newscorp.

I think they are trying to placate the Dems in case Kerry Marx wins.

[etradervic]

I have to respectfully object to referring to CBS, NBC, ABC, and the New York Times as the Mainstream Media. What is "Mainstream" about them?

[MTOrlando]

Where does he come up with that Kerry plans to cut taxes on corporations and small business?

Maybe from Kerry's web site:

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http://www.johnkerry.com/issues/technology/plan.html

# Eliminate capital gains for long-term investments in small businesses
# Extend the Research & Experimentation tax credit
...
End special tax breaks for moving jobs overseas - and cut corporate taxes in the United States. John Kerry recognizes that we cannot keep all jobs in America, but he believes that we need to end special tax breaks for companies shipping jobs overseas. The savings can be used to lower corporate taxes by 5 percent - providing a tax break for 99 percent of taxpaying corporations.

[/snip]

That is, until the flopper gets in office and decides that "the common good" is more important than those tax cuts he promised...

[Netizen]

If we all didn't watch FNC for 30 days, would they notice? Or would it take longer?

[familyop]

...my opinion.

Many corporate leaders are supporting Democrats for personal social reasons. They'll pay to execute their social anarchist policies. Rupert Murdoch, for one, is married to his third wife who is about forty years younger. But obviously, in the eyes of his employee, Bill O'Reilly, men who can't afford to support ex-wives/ex-girlfriends are the problem. Money becomes morality in our twisted present philosophical paradigm.

The problem is that our country is morally bankrupt, and such bankruptcy keeps almost everyone who breathes out in the workplace, enlarging the cheap labor pool. By and large, our business leaders were once moral leaders. But now, the hippies have moved into their parents' positions in the marketplace.

Kerry Lists Endorsements From 204 Corporate Leaders
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1184967/posts

http://www.umich.edu/~urel/admissions/legal/gru_amicus/32_internatl.pdf

The following filed briefs in favor of "affirmative
action" in the Michigan "Grutter v. Bollinger"
(Michigan University) case. Be sure to save the
list of corporations below for later reference.

American Bar Association

American Council on Education, et. al.

Civil Rights Project of Harvard University

Clinical Legal Education Association

Fortune 500 Corporations that filed briefs in favor
of "affirmative action" for Michigan University

3M
Abbott Laboratories
American Airlines
Ashland
Bank One
Boeing
Coca-Cola
Dow Chemical
E.I. Du Pont De Nemours
Eastman Kodak
Eli Lilly
Ernst & Young
Exelon
Fannie Mae
General Dynamics
General Mills
Intel
Johnson & Johnson
Kellogg
KPMG
Lucent Technologies
Microsoft
Mitsubishi
Nationwide Mutual Insurance
Nationwide Financial
Pfizer
PPG
Proctor & Gamble
Sara Lee
Steelcase
Texaco
TRW
United Airlines
General Motors Corporation

Law Deans of Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Georgetown, Harvard, New York and Yale University, and
University of Pennsylvania

Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights under Law

Michigan Attorney General

Michigan Public Officials

National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, et. al.

NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund

Ohio State University

Thirty-six Faculty Members of The Ohio State University College of Law

UAW (International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers

[familyop]

"If we all didn't watch FNC for 30 days, would they notice? Or would it take longer?"

My family quit watching Fox News many months ago, when it seemed to be broadcasting feminist/romanticist propaganda (along with some homosexual activism) most of the time.

[familyop]

Ah...we pulled the plug on the satellite feed then, to show our discontent, BTW. ...best and most effective way to do it. Now we work for us instead of working for the corporate pervs.

[Netizen]

By getting rid of satellite to dump FNC didn't you also lose the History channel, Discovery channel, the Learning channel etc? There are some good programs on those and others. I do agree though that not watching FNC is the best option.